web02.fireside.fm Sun, 10 May 2026 04:39:08 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) No Matter The Water - Episodes Tagged with “Poetry” https://nomatter.fireside.fm/tags/poetry Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500 No Matter the Water is a five-part audio documentary about how ingenuity, faith and community are keys to learning to live with our ever changing environment. The series follows five South Louisianans adapting to life on the Gulf Coast as the land and weather change around them. From floating homes to restoring land, each episode highlights how people are protecting what matters: their families, their traditions and their way of life. This series brings listeners into kitchens, churches and backyards to encounter neighbors helping neighbors, local knowledge leading the way, and communities adapting, working hard and looking out for each other. Whether you're interested in disaster recovery, preserving your heritage, or how community can get us through the larger challenges of our time, No Matter the Water is a tribute to the strength and wisdom of people who call this place home. en-us episodic A podcast about everyday South Louisianans adapting to our changing climate with ingenuity, faith and community. Rachel Nederveld No Matter the Water is a five-part audio documentary about how ingenuity, faith and community are keys to learning to live with our ever changing environment. The series follows five South Louisianans adapting to life on the Gulf Coast as the land and weather change around them. From floating homes to restoring land, each episode highlights how people are protecting what matters: their families, their traditions and their way of life. This series brings listeners into kitchens, churches and backyards to encounter neighbors helping neighbors, local knowledge leading the way, and communities adapting, working hard and looking out for each other. Whether you're interested in disaster recovery, preserving your heritage, or how community can get us through the larger challenges of our time, No Matter the Water is a tribute to the strength and wisdom of people who call this place home. no louisiana, nature, climate, climate change, flood, floods, flooding, water, weather, hurricane, hurricanes, garden, gardening, Lafayette, Chauvin, dequincy, Arnaudville, Duson, Old River, Morganza, roof, stilt, raise, float, amphibious, hope, solution, solutions, adapt, adaptation, mitigate, mitigation Rachel Nederveld info@nomatterthewater.com 1: Summer https://nomatter.fireside.fm/1 454ccfea-4c80-47cc-a953-a255c151945e Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500 Rachel Nederveld 1 Summer full Rachel Nederveld Meet Summer, a Chauvin principal using teaching and poetry to help her students—and herself—navigate land loss, storms, and staying rooted in a coastal town. 22:52 no <p>Summer is a principal and lifelong resident of Chauvin, Louisiana. She’s the kind of person you can’t help but smile around, and everything she does is to make the world a better place. As a teacher she guided students to think about how they can have careers to stay in — and improve — their hometown deep in watery Terrebonne Parish, and used school lessons to help them process the complications of land loss and unprecedented storms. And through poetry she processes the changes in her town she can no longer deny.</p> <p>To learn more about environmental curriculum in Louisiana, read our companion story: <a href="https://bit.ly/EducationNMTW" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://bit.ly/EducationNMTW</a> </p> Climate Change, Coastal Erosion, Chauvin, Terrebonne, Louisiana, Coast, Gulf Coast, environment, water, flood, hurricane, education, curriculum, environmental curriculum, LaFourche, New Orleans, Poetry, Writing, Kids, Teens, youth, high school, middle school, elementary school, disaster, recovery, preparedness, resilient, resiliency, resilience, evacuation, climate refugee Summer is a principal and lifelong resident of Chauvin, Louisiana. She’s the kind of person you can’t help but smile around, and everything she does is to make the world a better place. As a teacher she guided students to think about how they can have careers to stay in — and improve — their hometown deep in watery Terrebonne Parish, and used school lessons to help them process the complications of land loss and unprecedented storms. And through poetry she processes the changes in her town she can no longer deny.

To learn more about environmental curriculum in Louisiana, read our companion story: https://bit.ly/EducationNMTW

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To learn more about environmental curriculum in Louisiana, read our companion story: https://bit.ly/EducationNMTW

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